Chris Cogan's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Mgr., Merchandising @ • Lead and manage team of four employees to deliver on Point of Sale, Retail Shelving and other customer related orders as well as controlling over $1MM in inventory in a cost efficient manner. • Facilitate receiving, processing and shipment of orders to our customers and retail sales force in a quality assured and timely manner. • Interface with Integrated Shopper Marketing, Brand Teams, Procurement and the Retail Execution Team frequently to deliver on execution of sales strategies. • Develop and maintain budget of Customer Solution Center. From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Supply Planner @ • Responsible for the supply plan (inventory, distribution and production) to meet product demand and inventory targets for our Red & White Condensed & Simple Meals brands. • Provide tactical and strategic Supply Chain process leadership through the functions of inventory planning, distribution management and production planning to meet or exceed industry service levels. • Effectively managed finished goods inventory of over 120 Red & White Condensed SKU's undergoing a label transition initiative and met targeted on-shelf dates set by soup leadership team with limited write-offs. • Met or exceeded case fill targets on Red & White Brand in F10 & F11, Simple Meals on-targer F12 H1. • Partnered with Business Program Leaders, Demand Planning, Procurement and Plant Planners to successfully launch new product initiatives and/or line extensions. • Work collaboratively on many cross-functional teams (e.g. Marketing & Sales, Finance, Procurement, Master Planning, Demand Planning and R&D) to develop and execute product promotion/transition timelines within a capacity/capability perspective to meet desired ship dates. From June 2009 to April 2012 (2 years 11 months) Customer Service Analyst @ • Collaborative planning, forecasting & replenishment analysis (CPFR) for Sam's Club account. • Responsible for customer order management resulting in sales exceeding $160MM. • Presented quarterly reviews on performance goals and metrics to Campbell Business Managers, Sam’s Club Replenishment Managers and Buyers for Soup and Beverage categories in Bentonville, AR. • Execute all Sam's Club brand promotions through efficient order, frequency & distribution processes. • Manage inventory levels to over 550 active Sam’s Clubs and 29 items. • Team Lead for on-time delivery and Over, Short & Damage deduction management. • Co-Managed supplier certified responsible for Sam’s order / deduction management. From 2006 to June 2009 (3 years) Transportation Analyst @ • Single source contact for all Walmart related transportation issues. • Performed SWAT analysis on late delivery issues and executed plan resulting in 15% service mprovement to Walmart. • Responsible for weekly carrier performance scorecards and service reports. • Created dedicated fleet to achieve on-time delivery percentage goals. • Responsible for all daily transportation activities for Maxton, NC thermal plant. • Effectively managed group of three from our 3PL to achieve service goals to both our customer and plants. • Successful management of 50,000+ annual shipments under fast-paced work environment. From 2002 to 2006 (4 years) Operations / Account Executive @ • Responsible for providing third party logistics services to National Accounts and eventually became the acting liaison between Campbell Soup Customer Service Analysts, customers and our affiliated trucking companies. • Sold transportation services to existing and prospective customers via motor carriers and rail intermodal. • Effective supervision of all employee daily activities, such as shipment tracking, scheduling, quoting and data entry. • Assessed and administered quarterly employee performance reviews. • Worked effectively in an environment requiring creative, quick and critical thinking. From 1996 to 2001 (5 years) Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General @ Saint Joseph's University From 2007 to 2011 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Marketing @ Indiana University - Kelley School of Business From 1991 to 1995 Chris Cogan is skilled in: SAP R/3, Logistics, Continuous Improvement, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Manugistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Food, Process Improvement, Logistics Management, Grocery, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Operations, Warehousing, Customer Service, Transportation, Budgets